AP Literature: 1-37 Vocabulary Flashcards

7692520010	Allegory	A story in which the narrative or characters carries an underlying symbolic or metaphorical meaning	0
7692547440	Alliteration	The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Writers use this for ornament, emphasis, or aesthetics	1
7692681200	Allusion	A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea.	2
7692684121	Ambiguity	A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretations	3
7692693561	Analogy	A comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things. It may be a metaphor, simile, allegory, or parable.	4
7692696198	Anaphora	The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive lines	5
7692763607	Antithesis	A rhetorical contrast or of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences	6
7692767920	Apostrophe	An address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea	7
7692769802	Aphorism	A brief statement of elemental truth	8
7692772541	Archetype	An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example	9
7692776468	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds	10
7692777359	Aside	A speech made by an author to the audience, as though momentarily stepping out of the action on stage	11
7692783768	Ballad	A long, narrative poem that tells a story different from epic poetry	12
7692792148	Bildungsroman	A novel of formation, education, culture; a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood	13
7692796900	Black Humor	Comedy which makes light of serious and often taboo subject matter that can be used for exploring vulgar issues, provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement	14
7692800809	Blank Verse	Poetry written in regular meter which does not rhyme	15
7692808864	Cacophony	The use of deliberately harsh, awkward, inharmonious sounds	16
7692810676	Caesura	A pause within a line of poetry in order to make the meaning clear or to follow the natural rhythm of speech	17
7692814505	Cadence	The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense	18
7692815696	Caricature	A portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality	19
7692818430	Carpe Diem	Seize the Day	20
7692819283	Colloquialism	A word or phrase that is used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of formal English	21
7692822117	Conceit/Controlling Image	Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or one developed and expanded on several lines	22
7692826706	Connotation	The figurative, emotive, or associative meaning of a word/phrase	23
7692848051	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sound within words (rather than at their beginning)	24
7692850182	Couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	25
7692851391	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a term; contrasted with connotation	26
7692855301	Denouement	The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or solved	27
7692877051	Dialect	A regional speaking pattern which is used to make passages feel personal and authentic	28
8234043026	Diction	The choice of words in speech and writing. An author's diction serves to create meaning, portray characters, convey tone, develop themes, and much more.	29
8234060229	Dramatic Irony	A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character.	30
8234065950	Elegy	A poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing or death of something or someone of value.	31
8234069108	Ellipsis	In poetry, the omission of words whose absence does not impede the reader's ability to understand the expression.	32
8234081044	Enjambment	The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next without pause.	33
8234086461	Epistrophe	The ending of a series of lines, phrases, or sentences with the same word or words (opposite of anaphora).	34
8234088843	Euphemism	To use an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some.	35
8234230348	Feet	Iamb: unstressed + stressed Trochee: stressed + unstressed Spondee: stressed + stressed Dactyl: three-syllable, stressed + unstressed + unstressed (sort of like triplets in music) Anapest: three-syllable, unstressed + unstressed + stressed	36